No Caption Needed (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... the nostalgic, eternal return to that staple of the modern visual lexicon: the mid-century kitchen, complete with iconic 1950s housewife emerging to present a casserole to her adoring family seated at the table. The faded pastels, washed out background, and dinner table floating in a cloud of whiteness suggest an ethereal quality, interrupted only by the father’s black suit. He sits slightly...
Teds Take (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Nixon. Khrushchev. A kitchen debate. 50 years ago it was drama and great political theater. Give me six minutes of your time to watch this film. Great stuff. Smarten up, live and learn.
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
The late pundit should be remembered for his commitment to arts education, writes Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Like most Americans, I knew William Safire through his public biography: the "kitchen debate," the...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
WILLIAM SAFIRE, who has died aged 79 of pancreatic cancer, went from being the public relations man who set up Richard Nixon’s “kitchen debate” with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, to the first columnist on the (NYT) chosen for his conservative view, and then a much-loved grouch and language purist.
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... client. A crush of reporters trapped Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The ensuing "kitchen debate" between the two drew international attention for the combative American politician — as well as plenty of headlines for the home builder. The former vice president, impressed, stayed in touch and Safire found himself writing speeches for Nixon's successful...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the family. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: There was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.” He was...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Fitting, perhaps, that on Sunday William Safire followed his fellow conservative commentator and native New Yorker Irving Kristol into death. Mr. Safire was not the father of a movement like Mr. Kristol, but he was often the clever public voice, a reporter-turned-speechwriter with an eye toward playing the press. It was Mr. Safire, after all, who staged the Kitchen Debate between Nixon...
MSNBC.com: Nightly News (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Sept. 27: Among his many accomplishments, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (Nightly News)
Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Speechwriter, journalist, political pundit and author William Safire has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He died in a hospice in Maryland. Safire, who was a speechwriter for President Nixon, wrote the On Language column for The New York Times for many years. The New York Times has the obituary: There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal, which drove the president from office. go-getter n. Informal An enterprising person.
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
From the New York Times remembrance: (h/t - The Corner) He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the [...]
milkriverblog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
... The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Rosemary Shields. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
... and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal that drove the president from office. Then, from 1973 to 2005, Mr. Safire wrote his twice weekly “Essay”...
Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
William Safire , the man who made Spiro Agnew and "nattering nabobs of negativism" household words has died. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless,...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
From the New York Times remembrance: He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal that drove the president from office. Then, from 1973...
